692 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1>4

CHAPTER 184.

AN ACT to add two new sections to Article 11 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (Dennis' Edition of 1918),
title, ''Frederick County, " sub-title, "Justices of the Peace
and Constables, " said new sections to be known as Sections
489A and 489B. and to follow immediately after Section
489, providing for the appointment, duties, powers and sal-
ary of a police justice for Thurmont Election District in
Frederick County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That two new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(Dennis' Edition of 1918), title, "Frederick County, " sub-
title, "Justices of the Peace and Constables, " said new sec-
tions to be known as Sections 489A and 489B, and to follow
immediately after Section 489. and to read as follows:

489A. One of the justices of the peace for Thurmont Elec-
tion District provided for in the preceding sections of this sub-
title shall be designated and appointed by the Governor to act
as police justice of said election district, and he shall in ad-
dition to the jurisdiction which he now possesses as a justice
of the peace, and which may be conferred on him by or under
the laws of this State is hereby invested with, and shall have,
hereafter, jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all cases in-
volving the charge of any offense, crime or misdemeanor, not
punishable by confinement in the penitentiary or involving a
felonious intent, which may be committed in Frederick County,
and shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all pros-
ecutions or proceedings for the recovery of any penalty for
doing or omitting to do any act within said county, the doing
of which or the omission to do which is made punishable un-
der the laws of this State by any pecuniary fine or penalty, or
by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Correc-
tion, all of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to be
criminal offenses; and the said justice shall have power to issue
all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary for the
exercise of his said jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment
and sentence in all such eases coming before him in the same
manner and to the same extent as the Circuit Court for said
county could, if such cases had been tried before said Court;
provided, however, that the accused, when brought before any
such justice, on being informed by him of his right to trial by